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Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Prior to becoming Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had espoused the idea of “medical freedom,” the ability of people to make personal health decisions for [Read More…]

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (PHILADELPHIA) — KJ Muldoon, a 10-month-old baby who sparked nationwide headlines after receiving a first-of-its kind gene-editing treatment, was released from the hospital this week. KJ has spent the majority of his [Read More…]

Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (BAKERSFIELD, CA) — A 4-year-old girl receiving “lifesaving medical treatment” in the United States was granted humanitarian parole for one year, allowing her and her [Read More…]

Allison Joyce/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration announced on Tuesday it is rescinding Biden-era guidance that uses a federal law to require hospitals to stabilize patients in need of emergency care — including by [Read More…]

Natalya Maisheva via Getty Images (MEADE COUNTY, SD) — South Dakota has reported its first case of measles this year. The state is now the 33rd in the country to confirm a measles case, with [Read More…]

Joe Amon/The Denver Post via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Most counties in the United States have seen a decline in childhood measles, mumps and rubella vaccination rates over the last five years, according to [Read More…]

STOCK IMAGE/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Cases of the new COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1, a descendent of the Omicron variant, are on the rise in some parts of the world, according to the World Health Organization [Read More…]

Franklin Jacome/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday announced the removal of the COVID-19 vaccine from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s immunization schedule for “healthy [Read More…]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than five years after the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in the United States, hundreds of people are still dying every week. Last month, an average of [Read More…]

Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Measles cases have reached 1,046 as the virus continues spreading across the United States, according to data updated Friday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [Read More…]

Kike Rincon/Europa Press via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a major policy change, the Food and Drug Administration has announced a plan to limit access to future COVID-19 shots only to people over 65 years [Read More…]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The number of measles cases in the U.S. has risen to 1,024, according to new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data published Friday. Cases have been confirmed in 30 states: Alaska, [Read More…]

STOCK IMAGE/Getty Images (DADE CITY, Fla) — Florida became the second state in the country after Utah to ban local governments from adding fluoride to their public water systems. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill at Simpson [Read More…]

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of the nation’s most publicly recognized vaccine skeptics, took a softened approach on vaccines when he [Read More…]

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of the nation’s most publicly recognized vaccine skeptics, took a softened approach on vaccines when he [Read More…]

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., before a House committee Wednesday morning, defended the massive cuts to the department’s workforce and laid out [Read More…]

Manusapon Kasosod/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Drug overdose deaths dropped in the United States last year to the lowest levels seen in five years, according to a new federal report published Wednesday morning. The provisional [Read More…]

Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images (MORGANTOWN, WV) — The Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday reversed the firings of more than 100 federal employees with the National Institute for Occupational Safety [Read More…]

Oscar Wong via Getty Images (WEST PALM BEACH, FL) — As human-induced climate change continues warming the planet, pregnancy risks are increasing, according to a new analysis by Climate Central. Climate Central, a nonprofit science [Read More…]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to testify before two congressional committees on Wednesday to discuss, among many topics, the Trump administration’s proposed budget and [Read More…]